problem - variables not passed through querystring

pablogosse

Hi all. I'm having a very strange problem here. I'm working with a php environment on a new server, and for some reason it's not picking up variables that are passed through the querystring.

I've got a file with just the following code:

echo $var;

That's it. Nothing else. And in my personal web space:

http://web.unbc.ca/~gossep/test.php?var=foo

it works fine, but on the new development server,

http://waddington.unbc.ca/test.php?var=foo

it doesn't display at all. And since display_errors is for some reason turned off, I can't see any error messages which would normally be displayed. error_log() is also not working, so that's no use either.

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance,
P.

metin

"register_globals" is probably set to "Off"!
Try instead:

echo $_GET["var"];

MrAlaska

METIN has most likely provided the solution.

Error reporting on a 'live' server is a security risk, but when developing you can explicitly turn error reporting on by adding this line at the top of each page:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

pablogosse

Wow, this is very strange, almost like someone hacked into my php.ini file and started messing around with the settings in there.

As late as 4pm on friday I can guarantee that display_errors and register_globals were both turned on on our development server, which had been newly outfitted with PHP the day before.

As of sometime yesterday, though, the php.ini file has display_errors and register_globals turned off, and nobody but he or myself can modify the php.ini file. He's the only one who can bring down the server and get it going again to make changes to php.ini take effect, and he says he hasn't modified the php.ini file since it was initially set up.

Strange....

MozartMcLaus

Billy is watching you.... 🆒

no, for real: may be you have some king of backup recovery system